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COLOMBO: Indian cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar pitched for a nutrient-rich diet and quality education for children during his school visits in Sri Lanka where he also teamed up with people impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic and the country's worst economic crisis.

Senior U.N. officials say the conflict in Sudan has left 24 million people — half the country’s population — in need of food and other assistance

A WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA paper titled ‘Improving maternal and newborn health and survival and reducing stillbirth progress report 2023’, observed that India’s share of the total maternal and newborn deaths and stillbirths was about 17%. Both newborns and women are extremely vulnerable in the hours and days after birth and therefore…

As the planet warms thanks to climate change, tropical storms are becoming more frequent, more powerful, and wetter

On World Breastfeeding Week, we take a look at why breast milk is important and where breastfeeding is most prevalent.

Developing a sustainable pool of master trainers for child protection in Kerala

Cyclone Freddy cited as contributing factor in feared new outbreak that follows inoculation of 8 million children

Rates of routine childhood vaccines are on the rise worldwide after a historic drop during the Covid-19 pandemic, though the recovery is not evenly spread across the world, with major disparities between larger, middle-income countries and smaller, poorer ones.

The WHO and UNICEF estimates for national immunisation coverage for 2022 showed that in the WHO South-East Asia Region, the coverage rate for DPT3 recovered to the pre-pandemic level of 91%.

The figure recorded in the first six months of 2023 is likely to be an underestimate, the UNICEF says.

TENNIS star Sir Andy Murray is among a host of celebrities supporting a charity’s demand to the Prime Minister ...